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A character is praying to God or to other similar deity known to be benevolent and merciful. However, this devotee is praying for malice, begging God to be petty and cruel. The technical name for this kind of thing in Christianity is an "imprecatory prayer", although there is much controversy over whether God would ever answer or approve of one. The more colloquial term for this kind of thing is a Curse, especially if this prayer has any kind of supernatural effect. For example, a Racist Grandma may pray that the Good Lord kill her black in-law, a Heteronormative Crusader may pray that the sweet local gay couple will get HIV, anyone may pray that their rich uncle or disliked neighbor will die, and so on. Of course, not all prayers of malice are portrayed as Kick the Dog moments; it can also be portrayed as Good Is Not Nice, Good Is Not Soft, Beware the Nice Ones, and Pay Evil unto Evil could also be at play. If the character does this in a way that superficially comes across as very sweet and innocent, it may be Sugary Malice as well. Simply praying for victory in a conflict does not count (unless the prayer is accompanied by expressions of ill will toward the opponent over and above implicitly hoping they lose). Things get even more interesting if there should turn out to be an Answer to Prayers. Subtrope of Egocentrically Religious. Compare Holy Hand Grenade, when divine malice is weaponized in a holy artifact, which may easily overlap if the artifact is summoned by prayer. Compare and contrast Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter, when a person dares God to be malicious to them. If played for Black Comedy, it's overlapping with Silly Prayer. |
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Preacher (2016): In a flashback, the child Jesse Custer prays to God that his father dies, in a moment of rage after his father had his best friend Tulip sent to a childrens' home. His prayer gets answered. | |
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Thud!: This is revealed as the true method of calling upon the pan dimensional spirit of vengeance that is the Summoning Dark. | |
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The Silmarillion fanfic A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script: As talking to Beren and Luthien, Tulkas -the setting's equivalent of a god of fighting- tells them he has been somewhat keeping abreast of their (mis)adventures since Luthien's father started begging him to smite his daughter's fiancé several times a day. Outraged, Luthien demands to know whether Tulkas hurt Beren, and the god replies of course he did not. | |
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In The Talmud, Rabbi Eliezer's wife, Ima Shalom, has to stop him from doing this every day after he is excommunicated. Unfortunately, one day she forgets... | |
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In the Cambridge Latin Course, one scene shows a thief stealing an offering made to the gods, only to find that it's inscribed with a prayer for the death of all thieves. In terror, he throws his booty back and runs away. (This was actually a common practice in the Roman Empire; people would throw "curse tablets" into holy shrines imploring the gods to visit various misfortunes on those who'd wronged them.) | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: When Mac goes to confession, he quickly devolves into a Skyward Scream, demanding that God smite his friends for making him fat. | |
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The Simpsons: In one of the episodes where Sideshow Bob's after Bart, Bart prays to God to kill him. In "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade," Bart and Lisa are lost in the woods outside Capital City and find themselves threatened at gunpoint by hillbillies. In "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed," the family visits the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, where Homer strangles Bart for finding his Silly Prayer and reading it out loud (it was for Marge not to discover that their hotel leaves chocolate on the pillows). While still being throttled, Bart hastily scrawls his own petition and puts it in the wall, to which Homer drops him to read it: In "Left Behind," Homer gets an out-of-work Ned Flanders hired to the power plant's HR department, only for Ned to cramp his style so much that he impulsively prays for him to be fired. He's then burdened by immense guilt when that very thing happens. |
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In Sister Act, the nuns of St. Catherine's Convent have to fly to Las Vegas to save Deloris. When the helicopter pilot refuses to provide his services for free, the nuns pray, loudly, right in front of him and by committee, that God will be kinder to the pilot when he is in need. The pilot gives in. | |
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In RPC Authority the Church of Malthus finish the malthusian manifesto by a prayer of malice to the authority: | |
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A Beavis and Butt-Head Christmas episode opens with the supporting cast all praying to God to make Beavis and Butt-Head go away. Probably the least subtle is Principle McVicker's. "God, I've never asked you for much...but please...KILL THEM! Kill Beavis and Butt-Head!" | |
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One Bug comic was supposedly a message from God, asking people to stop doing this. | |
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Jonah Hill prays for Jay Baruchel's death in This Is the End and ultimately suffers an attack of Laser-Guided Karma. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Dear God... please punch Bobby in the face. | |
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In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frollo's song "Hellfire" includes a prayer to the Virgin Mary for Esmeralda to burn in Hell or else become his. | |
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This is one of the main elements of the plot in Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion. However, as it turns out, successfully praying for someone else's death will except in very unusual circumstances kill you too, and the gods will only answer your prayer if the person whose death you want actually deserves it. | |
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Dusk Maiden of Amnesia: As she lies dying in the shrine to a malevolent mountain god, Yuuko offers her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave. Her wish is granted when she comes back as an onry�. | |
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In one short on Animaniacs, Flaxseed, the Jerkass owner of a candy store, very aggressively refuses to donate any candy to an orphanage run by nuns. After getting the runaround by the Warner siblings, he grabs hold of Wakko and Dot just in time for the head nun (who is NOT happy seeing him manhandle children) to show up with reinforcements. The nuns are about to beat the crap out of Flaxseed when he reminds them nuns, as religious figures, aren't supposed to be violent. They therefore stop and pray, at which point a bus containing the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team turns up, and they beat the crap out of him. | |
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In season 14 of Supernatural, Nick, the man who was once used as an unwitting host by Lucifer himself, goes off the deep end in pursuit of the demon who killed his family. After killing the man who was also used as a host by the demon in question, Abraxas, he prays for salvation. However, it turns out he's praying not to God, but Lucifer. | |
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Purple Pussy has a prayer to make everyone die. This comic is pretty weird, and the characters often come close to Villain Protagonist. | |
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Planet of the Apes (1968): In the dying days of the The Hays Code, the scene of Charlton Heston pounding the sand on the beach and saying "God damn you all to Hell!" was presented to the censors as being one of these, because Taylor was literally calling on God to damn all of humanity to Hell for what they had done (destroying themselves in nuclear warfare). | |
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Al Bundy on Married... with Children often asked God to smite someone annoying him (usually Peg) or at least put him out of his misery. | |
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Junie B. Jones: A goofier example occurs in ''Junie B. Jones is (Almost) a Flower Girl" when Junie B., the backup flower girl, wishes on a star for the intended choice to get lice or something else that would allow Junie B. to take her place. Her mother, who overhears, makes her un-wish it. | |
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Why Am I Crying?: After another day of being bullied by Diamond Tiara, Apple Bloom goes home and wishes on the stars that something bad would happen to her. The next day, she finds out that Diamond Tiara has been hit and killed by a speeding carriage. Apple Bloom is devastated when she finds out, fearing that her prayer killed Diamond. She eventually confesses what she prayed for to Diamond's father Filthy Rich, but instead of being furious, Filthy relieves her of her guilt by revealing to her that the time of Diamond's death was 5:13 pm, before there were any stars in the sky. | |
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In a family-friendly example from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "Volley Dad," one of the nuns in Maddie's Catholic school prays that their volley ball team will viciously crush the opposing team. | |
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In Delirious, Eddie Murphy implies that all kids do this every once in a while. | |
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Early in Penny Arcade, Tycho does this when Gabe quotes "Ask and ye shall receive". | |
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We Were Soldiers has Hal Moore running into one of his new lieutenants in an empty church, and offers to pray with him. It starts out decently enough. | |
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In Spider-Man 3, after Peter exposes him as a fraud and gets him fired from the Daily Bugle, Eddie Brock goes to church to pray for God to kill Peter. It's quite possible that he spends the rest of the movie thinking that God said yes to this, since immediately afterwards he both learns that Peter is Spider-Man and he becomes the new host of the Venom Symbiote, giving him the tools he needs to exact murderous revenge on Peter himself, though his later proclamation of "I like being bad" might put a damper on that. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: June prays desperately for Natalie and her baby to die so she can be free of her forced penance with them, which has caused her severe torment. | |
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It Can't Happen Here: Before being executed at Trianon, Falck cries out a vengeful prayer against his oppressors. | |
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In the 3rd Fushigi Yuugi OVA, Mayo is told by a demon posing as Suzaku to pray for the destruction of the Konan empire (the very opposite of what she's supposed to do as priestess), motivating her with the threat that Taka and the other Seishi were planning on ripping Miaka's baby out of her body, and the promise that he could prevent that and ensure that she would live Happily Ever After with Taka and the baby. | |
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The Pilgrim's Regress: The Northern Dragon, who's so obsessed with guarding his hoard that he rarely sleeps or leaves for a drink, prays for God to give him peace. He clarifies that said peace should take the form of killing any potential gold thieves, rather than anything that might let someone else get the gold. | |
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Back when Stephen and Steven were still on The Daily Show, an "Even Stevens" segment had them debating whether Islam or Christianity was the one true religion. Needless to say, prayers of "Smite mine enemy" were evoked on both sides. | |
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In Speaker for the Dead, Ender says Quim prays every day for him to die. | |
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In an infamous story in the Books of Kings, Elisha curses a group of bullies, after which two bears come out of the forest and maul them. | |
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There are several passages in the Book of Psalms where the psalmist asks God to kill or punish evildoers, especially those who make a point of dishonoring Him. These are called the Imprecatory Psalms. | |
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M*A*S*H: The episode Life Time has a Downplayed example where the intent of the prayer is more about Balancing Death's Books than malice. The Patient of the Week will die without an aorta transplant. Upon learning that a freshly arrived patient is both inoperably wounded and a compatible donor, but may linger until it's too late, a tear-stricken Father Mulcahy beseeches God to hurry up and take the boy who can't be saved so that the doctors can save the other one. | |
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In Rome: we have the character Servilia pray to the gods of the Underworld, trying to curse her nemesis Atia for all the misery Atia has wrought on her life: Truth in Television this was not an uncommon practice for Republican Romans, particularly in the nobility. That said, curses had to be sealed with an animal sacrifice, which is not something the viewer sees on-screen in this case. |
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Happens in the first episode of The Cleveland Show when devout Christian Tim the Bear gets frustrated that Cleveland is outperforming him at their job, to the point that he wishes that "something bad happens to Cleveland" in a moment of anger, and is immensly guilt-ridden when it seemingly comes true. Cleveland gets caught DUI and crashing a company truck (actually taking the fall for Terry to keep him from going to jail), and a guilt-ridden Tim confesses to him. Cleveland's response? | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, there's a fairly sympathetic and understandable example with Arya Stark. Before she goes to sleep, she recites to herself a mantra which lists the names of her enemies, all of whom she plans to kill. At one point, when she has an opportunity to engage in prayer, she recites the same list. She's a very angry ten year old, but you can't really blame her given all she goes through. Eventually she finds herself in service to an assassin cult who worship the God of Death. Her sister Sansa is in the sept praying for her family and friends with many others before the upcoming siege of Kings Landing. When the High Septon starts calling on the gods to protect King Joffrey who executed her father and has her beaten and tormented in petty ways, the normally mild-mannered Sansa walks out, thinking Let his sword break and his shield shatter. Let his courage fail and every man desert him. |
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In The Purge, as the Sandins' neighbors are about to murder them, they take a moment to say a prayer before doing so: "Blessed be our New Founding Fathers for letting us Purge and cleanse our souls. Blessed be America, a nation reborn." | |
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At the beginning of The Iliad, Achilles quits the war out of spite after his war-wife is claimed by Agamemnon. To make sure he'll get his honor back, Achilles prays to his mother Thetis, a River Goddess, to have Zeus make the Greeks lose the conflict so they'll eventually come running and begging him to save them. This winds up kicking off the plot of the poem. | |
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In Chick Tracts, this is sometimes done by Catholics, non-evangelical Protestants, and so on. Within the context of the Author Tract, this "proves" that only evangelicals are Real Christians. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: As the leader of the theocratical white Phyrexian faction, Elesh Norn delivers sermons like "May our blessings sever the tongues of the forsaken." Although, considering their civilisation bases itself on Body Horror as the concept of perfection, it is just as likely that this is a well intentioned prayer. |
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A humorous example occurs in The Producers between Max Bialystock and his landlord: | |
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Game of Thrones: Catelyn Stark admits that she once prayed to the gods for her husband Ned's illegitimate son Jon to die when Ned brought him home as a baby because he was Ned's son by an unknown mother, a woman Catelyn was jealous of. She hates herself for being horrible enough to condemn an innocent child. When Jon does get ill with the pox as a young child, Catelyn makes a Bargain with Heaven and prays for Jon's life, promising that she'll love him as her own if the gods will just let him live, and stays by his bedside until he recovers. However, she is is unable to keep her side of the bargain and thinks that all of the misery she and those close to her suffer throughout the series (it's a lot) is divine punishment from the gods for her inability to keep her promise. Before she goes to sleep, Arya recites the names of those who have wronged her and her family — all of whom she plans to kill. |
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Done twice by Jason in Foxtrot, both involving his crush/rival Eileen Jacobson. At the height of the Pokemon TCG craze, he prayed to God that "if he were kind and loving, he would let this pack contain a holofoil Charizard card...so I can laugh in Eileen Jacobson's face". Years later, he prayed that he would crush Eileen on the next day's math test, before amending it to "let me crush everyone". | |
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In Your Throne Medea Solon prays to get everything her rival Psyche has and to rule in her stead (Psyche is betrothed to the crown prince). Her wish gets granted. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Pretty much every prayer is this, given the setting. Prayers to Khorne usually consist of finding more blood-filled things to kill, prayers to the Emperor of killing the enemy dead. Appropriately, as the Chaos god Malal is also called Malice, one can literally make a prayer of Malice. |
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The 2013 Scream Fortress update for Team Fortress 2 has this exchange from the recently deceased, quarrelsome Mann brothers. | |
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Averted in The Hunt for Red October , when Jack thinks asking for divine help killing The Mole attempting to sabotage a nuclear missile would sound absurd. | |
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Disenchantment: In "Tiabeanie Falls", when Bean, Elfo and Luci are to be burnt at the stake, the Arch-Druidess asks everyone to join her in praying they go to Hell. Elfo tries pointing out this isn't how a prayer is meant to work, and is told to shut up. | |
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Criminal Minds: One episode features the matriarch of one half of a family feud saying her nightly prayers. She starts out by saying that she believes in the God of Mercy, but that's not who she needs right now, then addresses the God of Vengeance and asks him to stop whoever is killing her family. Her prayer is interrupted when she hears the killer breaking into her house. She thanks God when she realizes this and grabs her shotgun to carry out vengeance herself. It... doesn't work. | |
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In Njal's Saga, set shortly after the conversion of Iceland to Christianity and before that whole "turn the other cheek" thing had really hit home, a blind man prays to the Christian God to be given sight for a short time so that he can kill one of the men who killed his father, grandparents, and other relatives. He is, and he promptly smashes the guy's head in with an axe. | |
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In The Chicago Code, lapsed Catholic cop Jarek Wysaki is encouraged by a nun to pray about his worries. He responds by praying that God will give him a steady aim to kill his brother's murderer. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: In Dog Days, Greg prays for Mr Jefferson to get hit on the head so he forgets about the money that he and Rowley owe him. | |
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Harry Powell's opening prayer from The Night of the Hunter, which speaks volumes about his character: | |
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Top Gear: As Hammond and May are loading May's car on a raft to cross an African river, Vitriolic Best Bud Clarkson stands on the other side and prays. "Dear God, make it tip upside-down..." | |
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In Jennifer's Body, main character Needy arrives too late to save her boyfriend from being murdered by the titular succubus. Right before the battle to come, she says one of the shortest and greatest prayers in all of film: | |
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Family Guy: In "Road to Europe", Brian and Stewie accidentally embarrass the Pope, who gets mad and commands God to "smite them!". Nothing happens, but he warns them that "He's a cooking up something!" | |
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In the Lit Brick adaptation of Of Plymouth Plantation, several of the pilgrims pray for God to smite one of the sailors, for laughing at them. She-Jesus does so, and has a laugh when they realize the sailor was their navigator. | |
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Dramacon: In the first volume, Christie is angry that Matt, her neighbor in the artist's alley is doing better business than she is (coupled with the fact that he rubs her the wrong way and she's already dealing with her asshole boyfriend's behavior) and prays to God to help her persevere. And also strike Matt down with a lightning bolt. When that immediately fails, she prays to Satan. | |
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In Justified, this overlaps with Prayer Is a Last Resort in "Over the Mountain". An injured and lost Dewey Crowe is desperate to locate Wade Messer so that he can murder him. Dewey prays a ridiculous prayer to God, begging the Almighty to help him locate and murder Wade. | |
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In All For Luz, Camila not only for her prays daughter's recovery after her surgery, she also prays for the Antagonistic Governor that orchestrated the Deadly Game, which resulted in Luz Killing in Self-Defense multiple times and experience a Heroic RRoD, to suffer in agony for the rest of his miserable life in prison. | |
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The Postman: As the Holnists cry "God rest his soul!" after General Bethlehem for Nathan Holn, whom they view as their founder, Shakespeare mutters instead "May he burn in Hell." | |
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